Carbone

Famed for its spicy rigatoni alla vodka, celebrity clientele and interiors that make you feel like you’ve stepped onto the set of Goodfellas, Mario Carbone’s eponymous upmarket Italian-American spot quickly established itself as one of NYC’s most famous restaurants when it first opened its doors in 2013. It’s notoriously difficult to secure a reservation at the Greenwich Village institution – no surprise when Rihanna, Taylor Swift, the Obamas and the Kardashians are fans – but we’re hoping that Londoners might have a little more success when its first European outpost opens inside Mayfair’s new Chancery Rosewood hotel in the summer. Serving up ‘red sauce’ restaurant classics like veal parm, baked clams and branzino, with Caesar salad and bananas Foster made tableside by suave waiters dressed in dashing maroon tuxedos, the Grosvenor Square restaurant will no doubt deepen London’s current love affair with Italian-American cuisine.